The US has moved the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group near the Korean Peninsula. The ships are expected to enter the East Sea later this week as a show of force in response to recent North Korean missile tests.
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Apr 11, 2022 | News Roundup
The US has moved the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group near the Korean Peninsula. The ships are expected to enter the East Sea later this week as a show of force in response to recent North Korean missile tests.
by Patrick Macfarlane | Apr 11, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Over the last year, I have focused much of my work on opposing the New Cold War with Russia and China—particularly with China. In a recent piece, “‘No One is Calling for War with China,’” I tackled a claim that I’ve been hearing recently. I understand the argument to...
by Kym Robinson | Apr 6, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
At the height of the late Cold War period, Andrew Cockburn wrote The Threat, a book that explored the bear cave of assumed Soviet military dominance. Challenging the narrative of Soviet supremacy—the belief that the Red Bear not only had greater numbers in their favor...
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 5, 2022 | News Roundup
US News Congress will likely increase the $813 billion budget proposed by the White House. [Link] The US scratches a planned test of its ICBM. [Link] Russia The USS Truman’s deployment was extended. [Link] Zelensky fired two top officials and called them traitors....
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 27, 2022 | News Roundup
US News The Supreme Court removes a lower counts ruling that prohibited the Pentagon from altering the deployment of unvaccinated Navy SEALs. [Link] The Biden administration will request an $813 billion war budget in 2023. [Link] Russia Australia sanctions the...
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Mar 24, 2022 | News Roundup
North Korea has tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) for the first time in five years. While Western governments and media have claimed the move violated a missile test moratorium, Pyongyang announced an end to that policy more than two years ago. North...
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 24, 2022 | News Roundup
US News Rep. Fortenberry was found guilty on three counts of lying to the FBI. [Link] The US is seeking the extradition of John Joël Joseph from Jamacia. Joseph is accused by the US of having a role in the assassination of Haiti’s president last summer. [Link] Russia...
by Thomas Eddlem | Mar 22, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
The socialist left says the evidence capitalism oppresses the poor is that free markets relocate factories to the poorest nations in order to pay the lowest wages. And when wage rates rise in poor nations like South Korea and Japan, they move their factories over to...
The Strait of Hormuz is the kind of choke point people talk about in theory, right up until it closes and the whole global economy starts to feel it. We’re joined by Ambassador Chas Freeman, a veteran American diplomat, to make sense of the US-Iran ceasefire drama and...
A single image can crack a political storyline wide open. We start with the viral clip of an Israeli soldier smashing a Jesus statue and follow the uncomfortable question it forces for many American Christians: what does “shared values” mean when Christians in...
We dive into the refutations by Saint Hilarion of socialism
Alright, you caught me red handed! I missed last week's email. I did, however, spend a solid hour, hour and a half, writing an article about how the film The Prince of Egypt framed 90s kids' first impressions of Israel. But I very quickly realized the topic was too...
The headlines move fast, but the stakes underneath them move faster. When political leaders say the Strait of Hormuz is “open” and diplomacy is “wrapping up,” we slow the tape and ask the only question that matters: who actually has leverage right now, and what price...
War is content, at least for those who are far from the explosions, acrid smoke and mourning parents. To those closer to the destruction and loss, it’s very real and inescapable. For most of us, the privileged, we peer into it whenever we dare, or should it come...
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